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Mar 15 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Cannibalism in Haiti in the 1880s
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Mar 5 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Females outnumbering males three to one in a Congo village. Plausible? Image Inordinate attention to hair Image
Feb 29 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Eeben Barlow recruited an informant by having her fortune teller foresee that she'd be in a fender bender, that her lucky number was 777, & that a stranger would solve her money problems

Barlow's team then rear ended her car & arranged for her to meet Barlow in a hotel room #777 Image @EebenB is on Twitter. Maybe you consider his services for your next geopolitical transaction.
Feb 23 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Amazon's main page now invites you to shop by race Image @Steve_Sailer won't be surprised to hear that Amazon's "Black" emporium is a lot of product for skin and hair Image
Feb 8 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Durant, in 1931, with something close to the Pendell/Rushton theory of cold winters

"Change within to meet the change outside" Image Durant noticed incipient gynocracy in the 30s Image
Feb 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One of the many reasons I chuckle at the JQers is that one of my neighbors is Soros without the hedge fund; old Jewish guy who *founded* an entire Warren Court era field of criminal justice reform, runs institute that pushes for the "anarcho tyranny" that JQers rightly abhor... In some cosmic accounting, this guy is probably responsible for tens of thousands of criminals being released to the streets. But there is no conspiracy. Just a smart guy on a misguided mission, the way other professors might agitate for wind power or higher min wage
Jan 30 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
"Equatorial Guinea would be a mess if Lynn were right" "They wouldn't be able to maintain anything"
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Jan 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
No word for "gratitude" in Swahili, no word for "honesty" in Mpongwe? Image
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Jan 22 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
If you spend enough time around poor people, you stop thinking of this Dril tweet as satire & realize that it's pretty accurate. "Candles" is just a stand-in for a suite of astoundingly profligate behaviors. Couple of times in life I've found myself holding the *actual* budget of a poor person (compiled more or less under duress, following a family intervention), & each time it's basically been the Dril tweet. Like the rank orders of the categories don't even make sense.
Jan 3 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1\ 🇵🇷 A GUIDE TO EATING SPICY IN PUERTO RICO! 🇵🇷

Welcome to the 18th parallel, a conveyor belt of flavor that links such pinnacles of piquancy as India, Thailand, Mexico, and...La Isla del Encanto!

LET'S TALK HEAT! Image 2\ If you're a gringo, you need to check your assumptions like lost luggage. Forget household names like "jalapeno", "serrano", "habanero", and "ghost pepper".

What do you think this is, Arkansas? You need to know how to get down with LOCAL flavor. Image
Dec 30, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Funny how much of third world dysfunction is inexplicable by any theory of "development"; go to major museum, hours are different from what's on website, this fact is met with placid indifference by all employed there. Not an issue of "funding" or "skills" O-ring Theory doesn't grab you if you're the sort of person to think about O-ring Theory, because you've spent your life among the competent. But imagine a place where, say, staffing a small business is a daily Apollo Program
Dec 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Homeless couple just put up a tent on our block, 40 feet away from apartments that rent for $20,000/mo. Cops refuse to do anything, so I waited until they left to panhandle and threw all their belongings away. Amusingly, it was a homeless encampment springing up nearby that put the first asterisk on my mom's otherwise solid NYT/NPR bona fides

Nov 10, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Perhaps part of the reason that western charity bears so little fruit abroad is that its recipients experience it not as charity but as foolishness deserving of exploitation

h/t @kunley_drukpa Image Townsend in China, Grogan among the Bantu, Lhote among the Tuareg--all remarking on the absence of gratitude


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Oct 4, 2023 • 31 tweets • 10 min read
Do we believe that there is an island of rats who have learned to fish for crabs? Image Kite fishing Image
Apr 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Bookends Image Anatomy of a tender fraud:

Brazil bribes Zimbabwean General to purchase unsuitable equipment, the Swiss are too wise to get involved, the Brits play the patsy, and the white guy speaking out about it all gets shuffled into retirement Image
Apr 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
With apologies to Thomas Nagel, it seems to me that the fact that AIs can be given access to each other's "mental states" means that we could impose game-theoretic honesty tests on AIs and essentially breed them for honesty For instance, if an AI trained to maximize human utility decided that its meta goals would be maximized by being narrowly dishonest on some task, couldn't another AI report this fact to its humans?
Apr 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Many hypothesized "market failures" that you learn about in Econ 101 turn out not to happen where markets are actually allowed to operate

In South Africa, private fire departments find it profitable to put out fires even when the building owner is not a customer Image Similarly, we are told that private policing wouldn't work, because companies would collude to lower the quality of service

But in South Africa, security companies join WhatsApp groups so that they can generate good PR by beating a competitor to their own customer's house
Apr 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
WC Wells beat Darwin and Wallace to the theory of evolution by several decades. Darwin recognized his priority. Darlington mentions metabolic adaptations to cold that I didn't know about. Wiki seems to confirm, with additional details.
Mar 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Ocean trash" is a fake problem

Yes, third world estuaries are cluttered with yesterday's refuse that floated down a river, but what isn't degraded by sun and waves is in short order ground to nothing on the sand Image I suspect that microplastics is also a fake problem, but I have no expertise there. Waiting for @KirkegaardEmil to do an updated lit review

Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Turn your loved ones into compost so that you can lower your carbon footprint

You can tell that pulling the nose of the faithful is not actually viewed as a downside but is seen, rather giddily, as a bonus When I go, cover me in naphtha, pack me in butane canisters and 9 volt batteries, and shove me flaming into the sea
Mar 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Because most crime is committed by repeat offenders, you can circumvent the entire "What if there's a 1% chance an innocent man is imprisoned" theorycel concern by just making punishment severity a function of number of offenses Yes, these sentencing frameworks nominally exist already, but you still see guys who rack up a zillion priors before being put away.

Apparently average NYC murder suspect has 11 priors.